Official final day of 2020 Olympics discussion thread

agip wrote:

australian track team seems to have the most fun

mcdermott is awesome

Suddenly the Aussies have competitive athletics in a range of events - big performances from all of these this year, and about 16 made final or top 12.

Men's 100m Browning

Men's 800 Bol

Men's 1500 2 of them

Men's 10km Tiernan

Men's HJ Starc

Men's PV Marschall but he stuffed up in Olympics

Men's decath Moloney

Women's 200m Riley Day

Women's 800m Bisset

Women's 1500 Hall and Hull

Women's 100mH Clay

Women's HJ McDermott and Patterson

Women's LJ Brooke Stratton

Women's PV Kennedy also stuffed up, hurt by a downpour

Women's javelin 3 finalists, one medal

dgddl wrote:

CGN expat wrote:

Vetter was the heavy favourite in the javelin after throwing over 90m so often this season but couldn't perform today :(

Vetter really suffered because of the track crumbling under him. You could see that especially in his second throw. Unfortunately, it's not too uncommon that modern very fast tracks are not firm enough at least for bigger throwers like Vetter. Maybe they should use a different type of surface on the javelin runways than on rest of the track.

Weber seemed to do alright, vetter should have taken queues from his teammate? Or maybe the pressure got to him more than anything? His qualification seemed good enough in second, the track didn't change between rounds.

Yikes NBC Sports reporting Jakob smashed world record

Russia responsible for a prelude of Tchaikovsky's piano concerto to conclude the T&F of Tokyo - brilliant sending off!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEKN2wAKRbE

SuprisedByThat wrote:

What time (ET) does the marathon start?

6am ET

hopefully Weldon will be streaming a LIVE Marathon analysis.

That was an A+ track meet. Old favorites, surprises, upsets, world records, etc.

Outstanding.

Moved up an hour to 5:00 on or 17:00.

Karma Police wrote:

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wrote:

Not kidding; why is the lead-off the longest leg? (That's what the commentator said.) I honestly don't know. If they pass halfway through the zone, shouldn't it be 400m?

It feels like it because you keep running past the finish line. It's actually usually the shortest leg - 395-398m, last leg they get the baton just before the finish line, runs 402-405m.

Thanks; great answer.

aIIez wrote:

Not a hater wrote:

Lasitskene was banned for doping? How does doping help in the high jump? Does it make you longer? Her Wikipedia page already updated.

I read Russia is banned, not every individual athlete. She applied to compete without representing Russia, I think.

Thanks for the clarification, the TV announcer kept saying she was excluded from the 2016 Olympics for doping without mentioning that it was only because Russia was banned as a whole.

Karma Police wrote:

Official splits

50.21 McLaughlin

49.38 Felix

48.94 Muhammad

48.32 Mu

3:16.85...second fastest clean time ever?

Dream Team!

Another giver of +1 wrote:

Wise Old Man wrote:

I’ve never seen so many elite athletes so wrecked. Hassan is in extremis. Let’s face it, she’s not just the best, but the bravest of all time. Certainly this is the greatest set of distance performances in Olympic history. Not just the medals, but enduring horrendous conditions to get it done.

+1

Only Kipyegon prevented the legendary triple.

You forgot Muir

Aussiestatman wrote:

If Hassan Runs the 10000, Silver is her Best Result

Gidey rested up is a lock. Obiri is the opponent for second. Three hours, forty minutes til the start.

Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but as much as I was hoping for Gidey to win, I couldn’t see how she could prevent Hassan from drafting behind her until near the end and then outkicking her. Gidey would’ve needed pacers or wavelights to maintain a steady hard pace and would’ve needed to know what’s the highest average pace she could maintain in the 90 degree weather beforehand in order to perform optimally. That’s a very difficult setup.

Only the Italians had a better Games

arunaround wrote:

Aussiestatman wrote:

If Hassan Runs the 10000, Silver is her Best Result

Gidey rested up is a lock. Obiri is the opponent for second. Three hours, forty minutes til the start.

Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but as much as I was hoping for Gidey to win, I couldn’t see how she could prevent Hassan from drafting behind her until near the end and then outkicking her. Gidey would’ve needed pacers or wavelights to maintain a steady hard pace and would’ve needed to know what’s the highest average pace she could maintain in the 90 degree weather beforehand in order to perform optimally. That’s a very difficult setup.

Gidey can’t be upset with how she ran, but I do wonder if she would have fared better pushing from 5k with a big move in the last 1200 or so as opposed to pushing from 1k.

She clearly died in the last 800. If she had saved a bit a hard move might have broken Hassan mentally late in the race. But I think once Gidey took her foot off the gas Hassan knew she had it and probably stuck with it.

`` wrote:

American (Sisson?) with the HS move of stopping cold in lane 1 at the finish, blocking a runner who was still going. Looked woozy from the heat..

500 meters before then she ran on the outside of the final turn of lane 1 as she was being lapped, hindering Gidey who was being passed by Hassan and Gebrehegne